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 <p>
-  Sometimes you will  want to edit MIDI data directly from a connected
-  MIDI device like a music keyboard or pad controller. Sometimes you will
-  want to use the mouse. Sometimes you'll want the fine-grain control,
-  precision and speed of entry that comes from using a custom note entry
-  dialog.
+  Editing MIDI can be a tedious task. Ardour allows using a connected
+  MIDI device like a music keyboard or pad controller, or use the mouse.
+  A third option, providing fine-grain control, precision and speed of entry
+  comes from using a custom note entry dialog.
 </p>
 <p>
   The step entry dialog is accessed via a right click context menu on the
-  rec-enable button, because step entry is related to <em>recording</em>
-  MIDI data. You cannot simultaneously step edit and record MIDI via the
-  track's MIDI port.
+  rec-enable button, because step entry is related to <em>recording</em> MIDI
+  data. Step editing and recording MIDI via the track's MIDI port cannot happen
+  simultaneously.
 </p>
-<img src="/images/a3_step_entry.png" />
-<p>The dialog (quite closely modelled on Logic's) contains:</p>
+
+<figure>
+    <img src="/images/a3_step_entry.png" alt="Ardour's Step Entry dialog">
+    <figcaption>
+      Ardour's Step Entry dialog
+    </figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>
+  The dialog (quite closely modelled on Logic's) contains:
+</p>
+
 <ul>
-  <li>
-    Chord entry switch (successive notes are stacked in a chord until
+  <li>Chord entry switch (successive notes are stacked in a chord until
     it is released)</li>
   <li>Note length selectors</li>
   <li>Triplet toggle</li>
@@ -33,17 +41,15 @@
   </li>
   <li>Dynamics controls from pianississimo to fortississimo</li>
   <li>Channel selector</li>
-  <li>
-    Explicit numerical velocity selector, for more precise control
-    than the dynamics selectors offer
-  </li>
+  <li>Explicit numerical velocity selector, for more precise control
+    than the dynamics selectors offer</li>
   <li>Octave selector</li>
   <li>Buttons to add bank or program change events</li>
   <li>a full 10 octave virtual keyboard</li>
 </ul>
+
 <p>
-  More or less all actions in the step entry dialog can be driven
-  directly from the keyboard, so you do not need to keep moving back
-  and forth from keyboard to mouse to do complex data insertion.
+  More or less all actions in the step entry dialog can be driven directly from
+  the keyboard, so that moving back and forth from the keyboard to the mouse is
+  not necessary even for complex data insertion.
 </p>
-